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Hi all!

I've come to love the event-based profile managers available on Android phones, such as Tasker, Setting Profiles, Chronos or Locale. These are used to manage different aspects of the platform by launching commands or tuning settings when certain user-specified criteria are satisfied, such as for instance automatically turning off wifi on the phone when leaving home.

I wonder if there is a similar framework with a GUI already available or in the making for KDE. Otherwise it would be great to have. I often find myself wanting to run or restart particular applications when I connect to wifi or lan, change screen resolution and so on. It would be nice with a system that keeps track on location, time and aspects of the system and desktop environment to manage events.

A few years back I wrote a simple application called ReMoot to make it easier and more predictable to control multimedia apps in Linux and I have been thinking to code an application with wider capabilities. However, my own language of choice is Perl and it does not, as far as I can tell, integrate well with KDE and Qt at this point. What frameworks and libraries are already available along these lines? Would it be better to build an upstream desktop-environment independent daemon and look for collaboration to build a KDE-plugin and Qt GUI for it?